Tipping is an Obligation in America: What?!?

In the United States waiters receive a very low salary, their "service" is paid with the tips. In Europe we PAY the tip included in the bill, so we also have no choice after all. Despite the "service" is added to the Bill, here in Europe we can leave a tip if we are satisfied with the service, it's not mandatory.

Tipping is BY FAR out of control these days in America. Typically it makes sense to tip waiters and waitresses because labor laws allow them to be paid less than minimum wage. I will tip them, I will also tip delivery drivers and bartenders...beyond that I don't think tipping is otherwise necessary. But many people these days are tipping all sorts of people that shouldn't be tipped.

Every country has different custom. Here the giving tips are usually not necessary. Whereas if you give tipping in Japan, they may regard it as an insult It is the opposite in USA. In fact many waiters and waitress need the tipping because their salary is not enough.

These days everybody and their brother want a tip here. It gets old.

Come to think of that, I believe it is in some places..but not here. I can't afford to tip..so I don't and there is no law that says I have to.

We used to be religious tippers, but woke up to few things and do not do it any longer. I do not want to sit and do math at the end of the meal. I do not like supporting businesses that do not pay their staff properly. My father was a salesman on commission basis for much of his life, and he never got extra for good service. If restaurants view waiting staff as salesmen, include the commission in overhead, I'm the customer not the bookkeeper. Most of all, I go the restaurant - not the waiter; the restaurant is supposed to provide for the service and make sure their prices include all overhead. I've never in my life seen a review for a waiter in any media, only ever restaurants. Nobody throws a fit on facebook for a bad waiter without penalising the restaurant in the same breath. As for restaurants that add it the 10% or whatever in the bill, we avoid those like the plague.

Waiters and waitresses do not get paid as much in America as they do in other countries. They count on tips to make up for that. It is customary to at least tip 15%, and if one doesn’t tip, that person is downright rude (unless the waiter was awful to you or something). People from foreign countries come over, don’t realize how little the waitstaff make, and then don’t tip. It is upsetting to the waiters and waitresses.

Here most waitresses earn very very little well below minimum wage then they get tips which helps. It’s supposed to keep the cost of food down.

I do know of restaurants that have that system. That money is collected and then distributed equally

The waiters and waitress get low salaries so you tip them.

They don't get paid as much here.

In my homeland, the suggestion from the restaurant is to at least leave a tip for the server of the meal for a thank you note for their great service.

In my country giving a tip at restaurant has stopped because diners have started paying online. This was prevalent when we had to pay cash but not all pay a tip.

In most restaurants here, a 10% tip is included in the bill. We sometimes give the server extra for his/her good service.

I never understood this either. Why be obligated to tip, when it's supposed to be included in the setvice